Chinese Cookies
New York Chinese cookies:
studies in flour and chocolate heaven,
not those thin almond things.
Last Friday
I took the Riverline
to New Jersey Transit.
As I ordered Chinese cookies
and black-and-whites
at Zaro's in Newark Station,
my grandmother's
voice and hands
took the boxes
and carried them with us
all the way back.
She took the 2 train.
I took New Jersey Transit.
She bought them
at the big bakery
a block away.
I traveled ninety miles.
Together we escorted
the boxes back
and forward in time
and made sure
that no cookies broke.
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